Chapter Summaries

At the Heavenly Court, Bai Ye volunteered to oversee a dangerous mission to spread the Central Continent's Dao across the Four Regions. He revealed that Yang Kaitai was his candidate to transmit the scriptures, leaving Yang Kaitai stunned.

• Tathagata proposed sending a scripture transmitter across the Four Regions to spread the Central Continent's Dao, but the immortals stayed silent at the danger of confronting foreign Saints.
• The Jade Emperor promised access to the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain libraries and the hope of great merit to persuade someone to take the mission.
• Bai Ye volunteered to manage the scripture-transmission plan, and Tathagata and the Jade Emperor offered him treasures, protectors, and scriptures.
• Bai Ye asked whether the scripture transmitter had been chosen, interrupted Tathagata's suggestion of Jin Chanzi, and named Yang Kaitai as his candidate.
• Yang Kaitai felt the particle worlds in his body tremble and asked in disbelief whether he really had to transmit the true scriptures.

Bai Ye appointed Yang Kaitai to serve as the scripture transmitter and brought him to Five Elements Mountain to recruit Sun Wukong as an escort. Sun Wukong eagerly agreed to join, and Bai Ye shifted the mountain two meters with a single push.

• Bai Ye chose Yang Kaitai as the scripture transmitter, explaining that he would act as the link between the team and Bai Ye through the Chat Group.
• Bai Ye took Yang Kaitai and two Anning Division officials from the Hall of Precious Light, while Yang Kaitai repeatedly voiced fears about the dangers and length of the mission.
• At Five Elements Mountain, Sun Wukong greeted Bai Ye and learned that Bai Ye had become the new Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
• Bai Ye told Sun Wukong about the scripture-transmission mission and offered him an escort position, which Sun Wukong eagerly accepted in exchange for release.
• Bai Ye pushed Five Elements Mountain two meters backward without removing the golden talisman sealing Sun Wukong.

Bai Ye freed Sun Wukong from Five Elements Mountain and arranged a scripture pilgrimage with Sisyphus and Prometheus, transforming Yang Kaitai into their dragon mount. The group reached the boundary of Central Continent, where Bai Ye struck the barrier between the Five Regions and drew the Sages’ attention as they prepared to enter Southern Jambudvipa.

• Sun Wukong broke Five Elements Mountain apart after Bai Ye freed him, then thanked Bai Ye and agreed to join the pilgrimage.
• Bai Ye named Sisyphus as the scripture bearer and Prometheus as its protector, while Yang Kaitai objected to being left out.
• Bai Ye transformed Yang Kaitai into a dragon and assigned him to serve as Sisyphus’s mount, promising him a vacant Sage position if he completed the pilgrimage.
• Bai Ye, Sun Wukong, and Yang Kaitai traveled south and reached the sea at Central Continent’s edge.
• Bai Ye struck the barrier between the Five Regions, shaking all five continents and attracting the attention of the Three Pure Ones and the two Buddhist Sages.
• The Sages discussed stopping Bai Ye but chose to wait until he completed the scripture-spreading mission, wary of the world revealed through Yang Kaitai’s memories.

Bai Ye opened a passage through the Five Regions Qi Wall and crossed into the Southern Region with Yang Kaitai and Sun Wukong to spread the cultivation method of immortality and longevity. When he demanded that Prometheus and Sisyphus be freed to protect the scriptures, a saintly presence from Mount Olympus answered with overwhelming pressure.

• Bai Ye shattered and temporarily opened a hole in the Five Regions Qi Wall, drawing the attention of Quasi-Sages across the five regions.
• Bai Ye carried Yang Kaitai and Sun Wukong across the Qi Sea into the Southern Region, where their cultivation was suppressed by its different laws.
• Apollo arrived on Zeus's orders to ask why Bai Ye had come, and Bai Ye said he intended to spread the cultivation method of immortality and longevity.
• Apollo warned Bai Ye about Prometheus's punishment, but Bai Ye announced that he would demand the release of Prometheus and Sisyphus to spread and protect the scriptures.
• A deafening rumble came from Mount Olympus, and the pressure of a saint shook the world and cracked the Five Regions Qi Wall.

Bai Ye sent Sun Wukong and Yang Kaitai to rescue Sisyphus and spread the scriptures, then went with Apollo to confront Zeus on Mount Olympus. He challenged Zeus and the assembled gods to a contest of strength, with the winner deciding what happened next.

• Zeus's wrath trapped Bai Ye on the way out, so Bai Ye sent Sun Wukong to rescue Sisyphus and carry the scriptures through the Five Domains with Prometheus.
• Bai Ye asked Apollo to lead him to Mount Olympus, while Sun Wukong and Yang Kaitai headed toward the underworld.
• Bai Ye entered the Hall of the Gods and challenged Zeus and the other gods to pull him forward with a rope.
• Bai Ye declared that if he won, everyone present would have to play a game with him, and Zeus accepted the challenge.

Sisyphus found meaning in his eternal punishment, treating the boulder as a monument to humanity’s defiance of the gods. Meanwhile, Bai Ye challenged Zeus to a contest of strength on Mount Olympus, where Zeus’s first pull failed to move their rope.

• Sisyphus endured the gods’ endless punishment of pushing a boulder up an ever-growing mountain, and the gods eventually stopped visiting when they could no longer enjoy his suffering.
• Sisyphus regarded his labor as pushing fate and preserving the proof that mortal cunning could deceive the gods.
• Bai Ye faced Zeus in the Hall of the Gods while immortals across the Five Domains watched the challenge.
• Zeus claimed he would fight using the power he had possessed just before becoming a Sage, while Bai Ye silently urged him to begin.
• Zeus pulled hard on the rope, but his perfected half-Sage strength could not move it.

The chapter explained Saint-level power through Knuth arrows and Graham’s Number before showing Bai Ye withstand Zeus’s attempt to pull him by a rope. Zeus escalated his strength to an absurd level, but Bai Ye’s attributes kept increasing as the story left their contest unresolved.

• The narration explained how Knuth-arrow notation represented increasingly vast power, from one arrow to four.
• The narration compared the realms of Earth Immortals, Golden Immortals, Sun Wukong, Quasi-Sages, and Saints, describing Saints as reaching Graham’s Number G64.
• On Mount Olympus, Zeus failed to pull Bai Ye and suspected another Saint was interfering.
• Bai Ye explained that incoming force automatically increased his strength, and Zeus’s pull caused Bai Ye’s attributes to rise.
• Zeus unleashed force reaching G6546464353543, but the rope remained still as Bai Ye’s attributes surged from 30.4 to 63.2.

Bai Ye overwhelmed Zeus in a tug-of-war, then tried to seize and seal him before Brahma intervened. Surrounded by Saints from across the domains, Bai Ye punched at Brahma, but Brahma’s power altered distance so the blow could not reach him.

• The Saints watched Zeus unleash his full strength against Bai Ye, and the resulting energy shattered Mount Olympus before other Saints contained it.
• Bai Ye held firm, pulled the rope from Zeus, and struck Zeus’s cheek with its end.
• Bai Ye tried to press his palm down on Zeus and seal him, but Brahma grabbed Bai Ye’s wrist.
• Brahma explained the different paths and fates of the Saints, including Zeus’s obligation to bear children and the prophecy that his youngest son would cast him down.
• Saints from the Greek, Indian, Christian, and Norse traditions gathered around Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye punched at Brahma, but Brahma altered the definition of distance and kept the fist from reaching him.

Brahma used his control over the Five Domains’ laws to restrain Bai Ye, but Bai Ye unexpectedly broke free and struck him. Bai Ye then faced the surrounding saints and vowed that none of them would escape.

• Brahma stretched the distance between himself and Bai Ye and rewrote the universe’s fundamental forces, preventing Bai Ye from reaching or using his strength against him.
• Brahma explained that he had analyzed Bai Ye’s abilities and intended to keep him calm and restrained while uncovering the source of his growing power.
• Brahma and the other saints approached the immobilized Bai Ye to examine him.
• Brahma’s body shifted between existence and nonexistence, and Bai Ye suddenly awakened and punched him by striking his body from before the transformation.
• Brahma remained unharmed and could not explain how Bai Ye broke free, while Bai Ye warned the seven surrounding saints that none of them would escape.

Bai Ye’s power continued growing as the saints tried to restrain him, and their battle spread beyond the Five Domains, reshaping the universe. In the Southern Domain, Sisyphus agreed to help Sun Wukong and Yang Kaitai spread cultivation methods.

• Brahma realized his plan to contain Bai Ye had failed, and the saints acknowledged that Bai Ye’s growth could make their deaths inevitable.
• The saints joined forces to suppress Bai Ye without attacking or provoking him, while Shiva warned them to prevent him from acting or thinking.
• Bai Ye struck with an unavoidable punch, but Vishnu moved Zeus into his Palm World as Odin worked to neutralize the attack and disperse Bai Ye’s power.
• The saints’ struggle spread across the world and beyond the Five Domains, altering the universe even after they had moved away.
• Sun Wukong and Yang Kaitai asked Sisyphus to help spread cultivation methods through the Five Domains, and Sisyphus agreed.

Sisyphus agreed to spread the scriptures and set out with Yang Kaitai to find Prometheus, but Yang Kaitai was transported to the Five Saints. The Saints explained that Bai’s battle with seven Saints had altered the universe’s physical laws, and the River of Time began to fracture into countless branches.

• Sisyphus declined to rest after the curse ended and agreed to begin spreading the scriptures with Yang Kaitai.
• Yang Kaitai was suddenly transported to the Five Saints, who asked him to wait while Bai fought seven Saints.
• Jie Yin and the other Saints explained that the battle had changed the Five Regions’ physical constants, beginning with the speed of light.
• Yuanshi Tianzun described how the altered speed of light weakened electromagnetic forces and threatened matter, while the Saints said they could not safely repair the damage.
• Junti stopped speaking as the reinforced River of Time shattered and the past split into countless tributaries across the Five Regions.

The Saints explained that their battle had split the River of Time’s past into countless timelines, unleashing unofficial histories. Yang Kaitai glimpsed bizarre worlds, including one where Sun Xingzhe became Gu Yue Fang Yuan and another where Journey to the West was a Cthulhu-like nightmare.

• The Saints showed Yang Kaitai how their battle had caused the River of Time’s unified past to branch into countless timelines.
• In one timeline, Sun Xingzhe recognized his second chance, leaped into Water Curtain Cave, and later received the name Gu Yue Fang Yuan from Patriarch Bodhi.
• Gu Yue Fang Yuan killed the Jade Emperor, declared he would rule as the Supreme One, and revealed his peak Quasi-Sage cultivation.
• Yang Kaitai viewed another timeline where Bajie, Wukong, Tang Sanzang, and Tathagata were dead, while a horrifying insect-filled world concealed the truth from everyone else.
• Yang Kaitai recoiled from the grotesque world and realized the infinite past contained countless unofficial histories.

Yang Kaitai learned that the Saints' battle had caused countless past Timelines to merge into the present, briefly giving every living being peak Quasi-Sage power before the world stabilized. As Heaven and the great powers sealed themselves away, Sun Wukong, Sisyphus, and Prometheus spread cultivation across the Five Regions, ushering in a new era that, five hundred years later, had produced a movement called “Beast Lives Matter!”

• Yang Kaitai saw the Heavenly Court's immortals suffering split personalities as alternate past selves overwrote their present identities and raised their power to peak Quasi-Sage levels.
• Lord Laozi and Junti explained that the Timeline effects would fade, though immortals and Buddhas above the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm would retain their memories.
• After the Timelines converged, Yang Kaitai, Sun Wukong, and Sisyphus continued toward Prometheus, with Yang Kaitai transformed into a white horse to carry Sisyphus.
• The Jade Emperor sealed Heaven for a thousand years, while powers across the Five Regions closed their gates and Grand Unity Golden Immortals entered seclusion.
• Sun Wukong, Sisyphus, and Prometheus traveled the Five Regions spreading cultivation methods, beginning a new age in which Dao cultivation and becoming immortal flourished.
• Five hundred years later, cultivators flying across Xiniu Hezhou formed a rainbow banner in the sky proclaiming “Beast Lives Matter!”

The Western Regions were overwhelmed by competing cultivator protests and causes, while a live spellfighting contest featured a tiger demon insisting he was human. After the tiger demon took a Rank-Exploding Pill and the referee accepted his excuse, his opponent backed away from the fight.

• Western Regions residents cursed as successive groups of cultivators marched through the night, protesting for various causes and campaigning for power.
• A cultivator tuned his World-Crossing Device to the Western Regions All-Styles Spellfighting audition and saw a tiger demon facing a human contestant.
• The human contestant protested to the referee that the tiger demon did not belong in a human-only competition.
• The tiger demon declared that he identified as a white human and accused his opponent of discrimination.
• The tiger demon took a Rank-Exploding Pill, but the referee allowed it as registered medicine for his condition.
• The tiger demon reached the initial stage of Refining Spirit Returning to Emptiness, and the human contestant backed away rather than fight.

The Five Regions saw bizarre movements and speeches spread through the World-Crossing Device, from a mortal girl's call to end cultivation to a preacher's strange claims and a demon city lord's anti-human uprising. In Tang-era Central Continent, a woman reposted a video of Da Meng She beating a girl and threatened to expose him on Little Sky Book.

• A drug-taking beast with tiger demon bloodline defeated a human cultivator in three punches, provoking spectators.
• A mortal girl from Norse condemned cultivators for wasting spiritual energy and called for everyone to become mortals, while a rouged preacher at the alliance headquarters made an unusual argument about Jesus and gender.
• A cricket demon city lord denounced human oppression, renamed Demon Emperor City the Demon Will Holy Empire, and announced the Anti-Human Party.
• Under Wu Zetian's rule, a Tang Dynasty woman saw a post showing Da Meng She beating a slightly chubby girl and reposted it to Little Sky Book.

Bai Ye imprisoned Zeus in his Sleeve Universe and forced him into a custom game that stripped him of his powers and placed him in a classroom full of Bai Yes and Greek goddesses. Zeus accepted Athena’s invitation and chose to fight a thug, only to face a powered-up Bai Ye as the game’s boss.

• Bai Ye imprisoned the Saints he had defeated in separate zones of his Sleeve Universe, including Zeus, and reduced Zeus’s abilities to mortal levels.
• Zeus entered the game titled “Black Mythology (Minotaur) Zeus” and found himself in a modern classroom filled with Bai Yes and Greek goddesses.
• Athena invited Zeus to teach her math at his home, and Zeus chose to accept.
• A game scenario showed a thug threatening Athena, and Zeus chose to fight rather than flee.
• Yellow Hair Bai Ye appeared as a boss, powered up his attributes, and threw a punch toward Zeus.

Zeus repeatedly died fighting Yellow Hair Bai Ye in a game before surrendering and watching Bai Ye take Athena away. On the second day, Zeus tried to rescue Hera from Tram Bai Ye but was hypnotized, leaving both him and Hera defeated.

• Zeus restarted the game more than thirty thousand times, repeatedly losing to Yellow Hair Bai Ye before choosing to kneel and beg for mercy.
• Yellow Hair Bai Ye dragged Athena into an alley while Zeus remained unable to move, and the game announced that Athena would leave school and later marry Bai Ye.
• Zeus began the second day on a tram and saw Tram Bai Ye harassing Hera, his childhood friend and wife.
• Zeus chose to fight Tram Bai Ye, but Tram Bai Ye used the Hypnosis APP to seal him and turn him into Bai Ye's dog.
• Hera was also defeated on the tram, and the game ended.

Zeus escaped Tram Bai Ye’s hypnosis by exhausting himself, but he continued to witness Hera and the other Greek goddesses being targeted by Bai Ye and other men. After a year of helplessly watching the game’s events, Zeus reached the ending and found himself back at the beginning.

• Zeus chose to reload after Tram Bai Ye hypnotized him, then woke on the tram as Hera made an excuse for her condition and stayed behind from school.
• On the way home, Zeus refused to help the injured Giant☆Root・Rascal・Bai Ye, while Hera took the boy in and Bai Ye taunted Zeus through telepathy.
• Over the following months, Zeus watched repeated incidents and new CGs involving the Greek goddesses, unable to intervene.
• After a full year, Zeus reached the game’s ending and discovered that he had returned to the beginning.

Zeus learned that the game required every player to complete all achievements before anyone could leave, while Athena continued exploring its storylines and grew attached to Bai Yes. Bai Ye returned to the Five Regions and was shocked by how badly they had changed.

• After thousands of years and countless loops, Zeus learned that Athena, Hera, and the Three Fates Goddesses were players and that everyone had to unlock every storyline and achievement to exit the game.
• Athena began a new loop, chose to avoid Zeus, and explored hidden storylines while considering how to collect every CG.
• Athena reflected on the appeal of different Bai Ye characters and admitted that she and the other goddesses had grown attached to the game.
• Bai Ye left Sleeve Universe and returned to the skies above the Five Regions, where he was stunned by the regions’ disorder.

Bai Ye decided to reshape the five mythological regions according to his will and descended on a western arena, killing an Earth Immortal who harbored hostile thoughts about him. He slapped everyone not watching a program broadcast through a World-Crossing Device and ordered them to tune in, while the Jade Emperor and Buddha responded by joining or enabling the broadcast.

• Bai Ye saw the five regions embracing strange customs and resolved to change the world according to his will.
• Bai Ye crashed into a western tournament arena, creating a vast crater and injuring the cultivators there.
• Bai Ye read the Earth Immortal referee’s thoughts and killed him for silently cursing him.
• Bai Ye took control of the World-Crossing Device and slapped everyone across the five regions who was not watching the broadcast.
• Bai Ye ordered the people he had slapped to watch the program within three seconds, and the Jade Emperor connected to it with a Sky Piercing Device.
• Buddha provided everyone in the five regions with a Sky Piercing Device already tuned to the program.